Call for Papers
4th International Workshop on
Semantic Web Applications and Tools for the
Life Sciences
SWAT4LS 2011
Dec 7th-9th, 2011,
In cooperation with ACM SIG
Bioinformatics, W3C
++++ Submission Deadline in one Week - Oct 7,
2011 ++++
News:
*********************************************************************
* Proceedings will be published and listed in the ACM
ICP Series *
* SWAT4LS in cooperation with the ACM SIG
Bioinformatics
*
* SWAT4LS supported by
W3C
*
* Journal Special Issue for extended and revised
accepted papers *
* Program includes Hackathon, Tutorials, Keynotes,
Demos, Panel *
* http://www.swat4ls.org/workshops/london2011/scientific-programme/
*
* Sponsored by BBSRC, NCBO, BioMed
Central
*
*********************************************************************
Overview
======================================================
Since 2008, SWAT4LS is a workshop that has provided a
platform for the presentation and discussion of the benefits and limits of
applying web-based information systems and semantic technologies in Biomedical
Informatics and Computational Biology.
Growing steadily each year as Semantic Web
applications become more widespread, SWAT4LS has been in Edinburgh 2008,
Amsterdam 2009, and Berlin 2010, with
We are confident that the next edition of SWAT4LS will
provide the same open and stimulating environment that continues to bring
together researchers, both developers and users, from domains spanning health
care, life sciences, clinical research and translational medicine, to discuss
goals, current limits and real experiences in the use of Semantic Web
technologies in Life Sciences.
Rationale
======================================================
The Web is a key medium for information publishing,
and Web-based information systems play a key role in biomedical information
exchange and integration. At the same time, the variety and complexity of
biomedical information call for the adoption of semantic-based solutions. The
Semantic Web provides a set of technologies and standards that are key to
supporting semantic markup, ontology development, distributed information
resources and collaborative social environments. Altogether the adoption of the
Web-based semantic-enabled technologies in the Life Sciences has a potential
impact on the future of publishing, scientific communication, and biomedical
research. This workshop will provide a venue to present and discuss benefits
and limits of the adoption of these technologies and tools in biomedical
informatics and computational biology. It will serve as a showcase for
experiences, information resources, tools development and applications.
Topics
======================================================
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Standards, Technologies, Tools for the Semantic Web
o Semantic Web standards and new proposals (e.g.: RDF,
OWL, SKOS, SPIN, RuleML)
o Tools for ontology management, editing and
versioning
o RDF stores, Reasoners, query and visualization
systems
o Formal approaches to large biomedical knowledge
bases
o Tools for semantic-enabled web publication
o Alternative approaches to integrate semantic
representations and web based solutions
- Systems for a Semantic Web for Bioinformatics
o Biomedical knowledge bases on the Semantic Web
o EHR and clinical research data interoperability and
reuse
o Clinical data pipelines for supporting tailored
therapy and molecular medicine
o Tracking genotype and phenotype assertions with
provenance
o Semantic biomedical Web Services
o Semantics aware Biological Data Integration Systems
o Semantic-enabled biomedical information systems and
solutions
o Linked Data for biomedical research, drug
development and discovery
- Existing and prospective applications of the
Semantic Web for Bioinformatics
o Semantic Wikis
o Semantic collaborative research environments
o Semantic crowdsourcing and collective intelligence
o Alternative approaches to biomedical metadata generation
and management
o Case studies, use cases, and scenarios
Type of contributions
======================================================
The following possible contributions are sought:
- Research papers
- Position papers
- Posters
- Software demos
Proceedings
======================================================
Accepted papers will be published as proceedings in
the ACM ICP Series (The publication will be available under the following ISBN
number: 978-1-4503-1076-5).
Special issue
======================================================
Authors of accepted contributions to the upcoming
edition of SWAT4LS will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of
their contributions for a special issue of an international peer-reviewed
scientific journal (under definition, special issues of SWAT4LS have appeared
in the past in BMC Bioinformatics and in the BMC Journal of Biomedical
Semantics.)
Deadlines
======================================================
- Papers submission deadline: 7 October 2011
- Posters and demo submission deadline: 31 October
2011
- Communication of acceptance: 7 November 2011
- Camera ready: 21 November 2011
Instructions
======================================================
All papers and posters must be in English, formatted
according to ACM IPCS guidelines
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and submitted in
pdf format.
- Submissions for papers should report original
research, and should be between 4 and 8 pages.
- Submissions for position papers should report
qualified opinions, recommendations or conclusions, and should be between 1 and
3 pages.
- Submissions for posters should be between 1 and 2
pages.
- Submissions for software demo proposals should also
be between 1 and 2 pages.
Submission
======================================================
All submissions are handled via the EasyChair
submission system
( https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=swat4ls2011).
To ensure high quality, submitted papers will be
carefully peer-reviewed by at least three members of the Scientific Committee.